Category: Poetry
Art and poetry are powerful tools in the fight for equality, social justice, and peace
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Mother and Daughter Poem – The Guardian
The Guardian is a mother and daughter poem, a reflection on giving and receiving care and support. The Guardian – Mother and Daughter Poem With a black biro, she’s drawinga wave on the white page mapping Mom’s waverings.She spots peaks and valleys and floods cutting through.Like yesterday before she buried a tablet in her clenched…
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Butterfly Poem – Love Is a Butterfly
Love Is a Butterfly is a celebration of the gentle nature of love, a butterfly poem and a reflection on beauty, fragility, and coherence. Love Is a Butterfly – Butterfly Poem Love is a butterfly nestling on your toe, and you see how the veins within its wings branch perfume into the sky across the…
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Wind Poem – Love’s Mending Ways
Love’s Mending Ways is a wind poem, a celebration of love and all the wonderful ways it binds, fixes, and liberates. Love’s Mending Ways – Wind Poem Inside the earth’s heart and within its fire the wind is moulding stars and goose quills like the one, he’s dipping into the brimming vial. Resting on his…
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Forest Poem – White Noise
White Noise is a forest poem, a celebration of leaves rustling and the power of trees. Next time you go to the forest, listen. White Noise – Forest Poem Among weeping leaves, the wind drinks drops of rain and clads the oily greens with the sun’s golden glow; Below the weeping willow, nothing but white…
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Poem about People – He Grinds His Teeth
He Grinds His Teeth is a poem about people and how everyone gets through life, some of us easily, some of us with great difficulty. He Grinds His Teeth – Poem About People He grinds his teeth, he doesn’t grit them like me or knaw the table like he once did while still travelling. And…
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Reunion Poem – The Crow
The Crow is a reunion poem, a reflection on separation and togetherness.
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Life Story Poems – The Drone
The Drone is one of my life story poems, a tale about the meaning of life, human existence, and thoughts on whether we are of any use at all. This is about misfortunes, lucky coincidences, resistance, and family support. The Drone – Life Story Poems First, he lay in a cardboard box, and then after…
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Strength Poem – Still, You Rise
Still, You Rise is a strength poem, inspired by a video of African kids working in a flooded classroom circulating social media. Still, You Rise – Strength Poem If I could I woulddrain the water from your front roomand fix the holes in your ceilingI’d dry your feet and slide them into warm socksbut my…
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Relationship Poem – Ode to My Green Mohair Gloves
The Gloves is a relationship poem, a reflection on the impact of meeting someone, anyone, and a celebration of the joy of togetherness. The inspiration for this came from Pablo Neruda’s Ode to My Socks. The Gloves – Relationship Poem My love lent me The hours it took To knit a pair of Green mohair…